# CollectiveAccess

> Self-hosted, open-source collections management for museums and archives with configurable metadata, media support, GraphQL API, and public publishing via Pawtucket2.

- **Category:** Asset Management
- **Licence:** GPL-3.0
- **Latest version:** 2.0.11
- **Open source:** oss
- **Languages:** JavaScript, PHP
- **Platforms:** Linux, Build from Source
- **Tags:** MySQL, GraphQL, Metadata, Media Management, Open Source, Php, Archive, Digital preservation, Cataloguing, Museum, Collections Management, Bagit

## Description

Providence is the cataloging backend of CollectiveAccess, a web-based platform for managing museum, archive, and research collections. It handles diverse metadata standards and media types including documents, images, audio, video, and 3D files. Notable capabilities include a GraphQL API for programmatic access, BagIT export for preservation workflows, machine translation via Google Translate and DeepL, automated transcription with OpenAI Whisper, multi-instance data synchronization, and broad import/export format support such as Dublin Core, METS, and MODS. The application requires PHP 8.2 or newer with MySQL or MariaDB, running on Apache or Nginx across Linux, macOS, or Windows.

## Links

- [Homepage](https://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence)
- [Website](https://collectiveaccess.org)
- [Documentation](https://docs.collectiveaccess.org)
- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence)
- [Forum](https://support.collectiveaccess.org)
- [Live Chat](https://app.gitter.im/#/room/#collectiveaccess_support:gitter.im)

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